Hubel Quotes & Sayings

I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Discipline is needed in our eating habit. — Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast. — Hilari Bell

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. — David H. Hubel

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online. — Luke Pasqualino

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser

The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can. — David H. Hubel

Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made. — Kerry Greenwood

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. — Kurt Vonnegut

In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development. — Torsten Wiesel

What manner of man would lose a loved one and still have the right mind-frame to perform his work? — S.A. David

We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on. — David H. Hubel

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same. — Mariah Carey

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. — Reginald Maudling

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more? — David H. Hubel

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician. — George MacDonald

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted. — Max Von Laue

All I know is that I am walking on a bridge. Amidst the mist the point where it started appears faded and the bridge ends in bright light that makes it too hard to even look. I need to cross this and I am walking. But, my Lord, I am tired!

I love this blue; I wish if I could see the depth of the river beneath, come back to the surface, float and then to be carried away by the tranquil waves to the banks where a thousand lilies will bloom, look at the sun and say 'we love you'.

O Lord, remember, they are my eyes that longed for a life the boon of your sight! — Preeth Nambiar